Paul king writes on the Groovy user list that he will be giving a
Groovy tutorial at ApacheCon US 2008, seems like the schedule is not
final yet, so if you are interested in learning more about Groovy from
the experts (Paul king is co-author of the best seller Groovy in
Action, also DZone ran an interview with him a few months ago) and plan
to attend to the event, please consider registering for the tutorial.
Here is Paul's message:

Hi everyone,

I am giving a tutorial (hopefully once, maybe twice depending on numbers)
and a talk at ApacheCon US in New Orleans in a few weeks. Anyone who is
planning on attending and interested in the tutorial, please visit their
web site and sign up as they are going to be making decisions soon about
which tutorials have sufficient numbers to carry forward with. At this
stage I am told the numbers are tight for the Groovy tutorial.

Also, let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to
see covered. There is still a little bit of scope to adjust the topics.

In addition, I am hoping to see if I can foster greater understanding
of Groovy with some of the Apache folk. Off the top of my head I can
think of numerous reasons why there is synergy between the two communities.
I have attached some reasons as bullet points below but I would greatly
appreciate any corrections or additions or other thoughts?

Thanks, Paul.

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Off the top of my head I can think of the things below. Any corrections
or additions?

* Groovy has for a couple of years bundled AntBuilder which gives a
non-XML alternative to using Ant (and indirectly to maven via
the Ant-Maven tasks). Gant builds upon this.

* Groovy bundles a Groovyc and Groovy Ant task to allow Ant users to
access Groovy - but you can also use BSF and JSR-223 scripting.

* Gradle offers an interesting alternative to Ant and Maven while allowing
you to leverage both technologies and it uses Ivy as its prime
vehicle for dependency management (with some support for Maven too
I believe)

* You can run Grails on Geronimo and Derby if you wish

* I believe Groovy support is bundled with Apache Camel, Apache
ServiceMix, Roller, and maybe Hivemind, Synapse, Tuscany and Wicket

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